Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-04

The fire In the naphtha spring store
houses at Balachut, Russia, was extin-
guished, after burning for several days.
One million pools of naphtha were burned.
A WIND storm with rain, on the 2Sth, de-
stroyed part of the grand stand, unroofed
portion of the stables, blew down fences
and Frustrated the telegraph and telephone
wires at the Latonia race-track, at Cincin-
natl, causing $1,000 to $4,000 damages. No
person was injured.
a TELEGRAM was received at the execu.
tive department, at Harrisburg, Pa, on
the 18th, from the city marshal of Wind
sor, o., stating that he had arrested man
who was supposed to be McCabe, the es-
capped Wayne County murderer, who was
under sentence of death. A description Of
McCabe was forwarded.
JUDGE A. E. COLE of the Rowan (Ky.)
Circuit Court made formal application, on
the 18th, for troops to protect his court,
which convenes on August 2. Judge Cole
and others feel certain there will be blood
shed unless troops are at hand. Friends of
Craig Tolliver are already collecting in the
neighborhood.
DIR. Won SCHLOEZER, Prussian Minister
to the Vatican, has presented to the Pope
an exquisitely wrought mitre, adorned with
rubies, diamonds, sapphires and emeralds,
and accompanied by an autograph letter
from the Emperor of Germany, rendering
the bejeweled offering as his jubilee gift to
the Holy Father.
GENERAL BoULANGER's challenge for a
duel has been sent to M. Ferry.
JOHN BRIGHT exhorts the electors of
Bridgeton to vote against George Otto
Trevelyan for Parliament.
MRS. TRUGo and two children were
burned to death in q Chicago tenement
fra nm tho Doth Savpral OfharS xvare haG n.
ly injured, some fatally.
BY an accident on the Baltimore s. Ohio
railway at West Newton, Pa, on the Goth,
fireman named Orbin was killed and
Engineer Gilland WAS fatally injured.
THE Shah of Persia will start in April
next upon a six months tour of the indus
trial centers of Europe.
C. HENINGER, aged eighty-seven, of
Brooklyn, suicided, on the 18th, by shoot
ing himself through the head. He had
been troubled with softening Of the brain
for some time.
DANIEL SHEEHAN, a nephew of Mr.. Shee-
han, a member of Parliament for Kerry,
has been arrested at Killarney under the
Crimes act. He is chaged with assaulting
bailiffs.
DANIEL LYONS, the murderer of Athlete
Quinn, arrived in New York on the 18th
from Pittsburgh. Subsequently he waived
examination and was held for the grand
jury.
PRINCE LOUIS OF BATTENBERG has been
appointed commander of the British IRON
clad Dreadnaught, over the heads of scores
of seniors. 1t is expected that the Radi-
Gals will criticise the appointment in Par
Lament.
IT has been discovered that Calvin Rigg,
a school-tax collector for the town of Con-
oh Do f-ny To, &c hort
in his accounts for the years 1SS4-S5 to the
amount of $4,000.
THE Rockland cafe and large clambake
pavilion connected with Hotel Nantasket,
at Nantasket Beach, Mass, were burned
on the evening of the 18th. The great ho-
tel itself was saved with great difficulty.
Loss about $25, 600; insured.
A DARING and carefully-planned rob-
berry was perpetrated at the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy passenger depot at
Des Moines, Ia, on the 29th, one of the
light-fngered gentry getting away with the
money in the safe during the temporary alb
sence of the ticket-seller.
THREE men We're seriously injured by
premature blast at Burden furnace, Hud.
son, N. Y, on the 18th. They were still
recovery. The accident was the result of
their own carelessness.
REVEREND MOTHER SUPERIOR NJ. B.
LYNCH died at the Ursuline convent in
Columbia, S. c., on the night of the 2Sth.
The deceased was the first mother superior
of Usuline nuns in the South, having be-
come a nun in Cincinnati in 1S47.
AN elevator in the Bremen shoe and slip
per factory in ST. Louis fell on the evening
of the 18th with load of passengers. Two
of them, Alex. Farrar and Annie Moran,
were fatally injured.
THE President has come to the conclusion
that he can as easily snswer a written in
vitation to visit city he can respond
to long speeches of visiting delegations
conveying such invitations, and he has
begged the Memphis citizens, who threat
ened a descent on the White House, not tc
make it.
JOSEPH RICH, farmer returning home
from Richmond, Ind, on the 10Th, in a
wagon, together with his wife, baby and
wife's mother, attempted to cross the rail-
road track ahead of a passenger train. As
result, Rich, his baby and his wife's
mother were instantly killed and Mrs. Rich
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